AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended as follows: Include
among the places excepted from examination therein the following:

6. In the Department of Agriculture:

In the office of the Secretary: The assistant chiefs of the following
divisions: Of economic ornithology and mammalogy, of pomology, of
microscopy, of vegetable pathology, of records and editing, and one
property clerk.

In the Weather Bureau: The assistant chief of the Bureau, the three
professors of meteorology of highest grade, executive officer,
superintendent of telegraph lines, and one property clerk.

In the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries the following:
Scientific or professional experts to be temporarily employed in
investigations authorized by Congress, but not to include any persons
regularly employed in that Commission nor any person whose duties are
not scientific or professional and who are not experts in the particular
line of scientific inquiry in which they are to be employed.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 6, 1893_.